Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

His farming operation benefited too, with a diverse array of vegetables, fruits, and grains now flourishing in his fields. In Kansas, some annual row crop farmers are pioneering perennial crops to counter the impacts of yearly plowing that has depleted their soils. Abebe’s mantra, “nourish and heal,” is catching hold around the globe.

Agriculture 81

Agriculture Agriculture Grain Food 81

The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

When soil erosion and climate change collide We’ve all seen grainy historical photos of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s —a nearly decade-long confluence of recurring severe droughts, poor farming practices, and plummeting grain prices that devastated much of the Great Plains and drove the largest migration in US history. All the time.

Agriculture 131

Agriculture Agriculture Fertilizer Plowing 131

The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

While a small number of winter crops such as small grains (wheat, oats, barley) and forage and pasture crops such as alfalfa can use some winter rain and snow, western agriculture largely depends on a steady supply of irrigated water that has led to extreme groundwater mining. Agriculture is the largest user of water in the western states.

Industrial Agriculture 103

Industrial Agriculture Crop Agriculture Agriculture 103

CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed.

Agriculture 52

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Food 52